Walking on the mountain road, Liu Shiba turned around frequently and looked at several old figures looming in the morning mist, standing in the cold wind...
Walking into Liujiatun with a frown, Liu Shiba felt vaguely that he had accidentally walked into a puzzle.
He had no intention of going in, but fate couldn't control it.
It was as if he was being controlled by the big hand of fate. Liu Shiba didn't like this feeling.
He is just an ordinary person who wants to live an ordinary life...
On the way to Liujiatun Ancestral Hall, there was a sound of gongs at the entrance of the village.
Liu Shiba stopped when he heard the sound, hesitated for a moment but did not look back, and walked firmly towards the ancestral hall.
The Liujiatun Ancestral Hall is at the end of the Tunzhong Trail, next to the waterfall under the Shiding Peak of Ziyun Mountain, and tightly against the mountain wall.
Hearing the sound of gongs in the village, the adult men and women from every household in Liujiatun walked out of the quaint stone houses and walked silently to the mountain road at the entrance of the village. When they met Liu Shiba and his entourage on the road, they didn't say a word, and at most they said something kind.
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In fact, Liu Shiba still knows a little about the meaning of gongs played in Liujiatun. It is said that it is a rule passed down from very early times.
Whenever Liujiatun is harassed by foreign enemies or wild beasts and requires the whole village to resist, this gong will be sounded.
Before Liu was 18 or 17 years old, he heard such gong sounds three times. Each time it sounded late at night. After a period of noisy time, it gradually became quiet.
Now that I think about it, I'm afraid every gong sound is not simple...
Today, Liujiatun is beating the gong again for Liu Shiba. What is the old village chief Li Laifu going to do?
Do you think you have to fight against the people who come to arrest you just for yourself?
Thinking of this, Liu Shiba's pace became a little faster. As long as he could not be found, Liujiatun would be fine.
Ten minutes later, Liu Shiba, four people and one dog stood at the door of the slightly primitive and desolate ancestral hall in Liujiatun.
Liu Shiba rarely came into this ancestral hall. He only came in a few times with his grandfather when he was a child and worshiped his ancestors.
No one comes here usually, except for Li Laifu who comes here every day to clean.
The architectural style of the ancestral hall is very strange. It is built against the mountain. When Liu Shiba was a child, he had thought about why the ancestral hall in Liujiatun had a dome and was made of stones.
Viewed from a distance, the shape of the ancestral hall looks like the shape of a tiger's head, with two tiger paws on both sides like the gatekeeper lions of the deep house compound, and the tiger's mouth is the gate of the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall usually never lights up lights. Looking at the dark interior, Liu Shiba couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
I don't know why, but I always feel eerie, as if there is a pair of eyes looking at me from the dark.
Cao Xiong, who was following Liu Shiba, was obviously here for the first time, with a slight curiosity in his eyes and a trace of excitement that could not be concealed on his face.
The old couple Li Ergou followed Liu Shiba faithfully, especially the old woman Cuihua, who had a satisfied smile in her eyes and tightly covered her Tai Sui finger.
Liu Shiba glanced around cautiously and walked towards the ancestral hall.
It was still winter, and it was extremely cold inside the ancestral hall. Liu Shiba couldn't help but shrink his neck and closed his eyes for a while.
After getting used to the darkness for a while, Liu Shiba opened his eyes again and looked around.
At first glance, the ancestral hall looks very simple, with a floor paved with bluestone slabs.
Each bluestone slab is about 1.23 meters square. It looks like it has been around for a long time. It can be seen from the smooth light shining on it. These slabs may be old items.
The entire ancestral hall covers an area of about more than 300 square meters and looks extremely empty. The dome is also made of stones and is nearly ten meters above the ground.
The ancestral hall was eerily quiet, as if it was another world...
On both sides of the wall of the ancestral hall, there are several rows of old-fashioned weapon racks, filled with eighteen kinds of weapons.
Although they are quite old, Liu Shiba has no doubt that these things can be sold at high prices.
These weapons were identified by Cao Xiong's old eyes and found to be bronze weapons from the Qin and Han Dynasties.
It has to be said that Liujiatun Ancestral Hall is really amazing that it has been maintained to this day and is still looking shiny.
Liu Shiba frowned and wandered around the ancestral hall, thinking about the mantra Li Laifu said when he said goodbye: Seven, seven, forty-nine?
Then, Liu Shiba's eyes lit up, and he walked back to the entrance of the ancestral hall and began to count the bluestone slabs on the ground. He first counted seven columns horizontally from the door, and then counted seven slabs vertically forward.
This is 7749??
Liu Shiba knelt down and struck a few times with his fist, hearing a dull echo that surrounded the ancestral hall.
"The bottom is solid rammed earth."
Cao Xiong stood behind Liu Shiba and said calmly.
Li Ergou and his wife stood at the door of the ancestral hall. After closing the door of the ancestral hall, they cautiously watched the movement outside through the gap in the window.
Liu Shiba frowned and stood up, walked to the front of the ancestral hall and counted from inside to outside. It was still the same stone?
Counting again starting from the right, the result is still the same...
Liu Shiba couldn't help but be stunned at this moment, thinking:
"Seven seven forty-nine is correct!"
What on earth does Li Laifu mean by the seventy-seven-forty-nine?
Standing on the same stone slab in the ancestral hall, Liu Shiba looked around in confusion.
In the entire ancestral hall, except for an offering table and two futons facing the door, there were only weapon racks leaning on both sides, and there was nothing else.
Behind the altar table, the shelf where the ancestors' rankings should be placed is also empty, Liu Shiba has known this since he was a child.
From his pocket, I habitually took out a Big China stick and wanted to light it up and take a few puffs.
But Liu Shiba turned around and thought that this was an ancestral hall, so he took the cigarette in his hand again and accidentally dropped it on the bluestone slab at his feet.
When Liu Shiba was about to bend down to pick it up, his eyes widened suddenly. At this time, the bluestone slab had actually changed?
In the dark ancestral hall, there was a glimmer of light. A closer look revealed that it was a small window on the front of the ancestral hall, shining in a ray of sunlight, one of which was shining on the stone slab...
Isn't there something special about this?
Looking at the reflected light, Liu Shiba's heart moved. He looked up at the dome, and he actually discovered something different.
The light reflected from other places on the stone slab was not refracted again, but the stone slab under his feet reflected the sunlight towards the dome of the ancestral hall again.
Is it really this stone slab with forty-nine in the positive and negative numbers?
There seemed to be a small shiny thing on the reflected spot on the dome of the ancestral hall.
The light reflected from the floor hit the shiny object and was refracted to the ground again.
Although it is only a very inconspicuous hairline thickness, you can't see it at all if you don't pay attention, because the light that is refracted three times is very dim.
Liu Shiba glanced at Cao Xiong, followed the guidance of the light, and slowly walked to the last refracted place, and found that it was a corner behind the altar table.
There is a wall two feet high from the ground, made of bluestones, and it is close to the mountain wall of Shiding Peak.
The walls of the entire ancestral hall are not made of one piece of bluestone. There are some very small filling stones at the joints.
The refracted light shines on one of the bluestones the size of a pigeon egg.
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